http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2008-05-11T17:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210527792.shtml It's a good thing he did, too, as the other two games were quick, dull draws. Ivanchuk and Cheparinov went at it hammer and tongs in a Classical King's Indian with... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-11T17:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210468822.shtml Today's round was rather funny. Ivanchuk defeated Bu Xiangzhi easily, as a series of bad moves (which formed a single idea, so perhaps we can award a shared '??' to the... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-11T01:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210467885.shtml ... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-11T01:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210352487.shtml Today's round at the MTel Masters in Sofia, Bulgaria, was rather less thrilling than yesterday's, but thanks to the no-draw offer policy the spectators still got a full show.... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-09T17:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210347087.shtml Thanks to a goof-up on my part, the video for the 3rd place game in the US Chess League's 2007 Game of the Year contest is in the wrong location (at... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-09T15:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210314108.shtml There weren't any whiz-bang games, but all the games were long and decisive. Both the locals - Topalov and Cheparinov - won, and they were joined in the winner's circle by... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-09T06:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210310649.shtml If a man wrote this, he'd be tarred and feathered (or worse), but here are the words of Nona Gaprindashvili, former women's world champion and the first woman to earn... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-09T05:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210309221.shtml From tonight's Chess Today:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-09T05:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210245146.shtml The chess "Oscar" has nothing to do with Hollywood and the AMPAS. It's an award by journalists - those polled by the Russian chess magazine 64-Chess Review (sadly, I... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-08T11:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210226860.shtml I was browsing IM Jovanka Houska's 2007 book Play the Caro-Kann, and while looking through the introductory section on the Panov/Botvinnik Attack I read something incredible. In a subsection called 7th... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-08T06:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210196180.shtml ... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-07T21:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210130804.shtml In this post I challenged all of you to make the best sense of this position, from the game Alekhine - J. Morrison, Manchester (simul) 1923:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-07T03:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210128047.shtml The city of Baku, Azerbaijan, seems almost a factory for great chess players. Garry Kasparov, Teimour Radjabov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vugar Gashimov, Vladimir Akopian, and the star of today's show, Emil Sutovsky.... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-07T02:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1114234449.shtml Every Wednesday night, I present a live show on ChessBase's playchess.com server, and once the show is over it is uploaded into the server's archives. In this entry I'll... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-07T02:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210122809.shtml ... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-07T01:05+00:00